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| culturenow.org | Vol. 1 Issue 5 - August 2011 |
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INTRODUCING: CULTURENOW'S NEW ANDROID APP |
Over the course of the past year, we received many requests to extend our app to other platforms. I’m delighted to share the soft launch of our Android App which will make our content more accessible to a wider audience. The app incorporates many new features including enhanced search options by city, a daily featured site and an events calendar. We plan to update the iPhone app soon with these features, so we hope you download the android version and give us your feedback. Here is the link. On another note, we thank you all for generously supporting us on Kickstarter. We are pleased to announce that we made our goal. The funds will be used to expand our collection nationally. Abby Suckle, President |
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 cultureNOW President Abby Suckle moderates a Mapping the Cityscape Symposium |
A series of five panel discussions to complement the exhibition were organized. The first of them, "From Maps to Apps: cultureNOW's Museum Without Walls Project" framed the discussion by tracing the organization's development over the past decade. In "Mapping Manhattan," four cartographers explored various ways of organizing, perceiving, and understanding Lower Manhattan though their projects that utilized ecological, archeological and interpretative maps. The "Mapping Risk" symposium brought to light the vital role maps play for city agencies, architects, planners and the public to prepare in the event of natural and man-made disasters. Building on cultureNOW's digital national gallery project, public art administrators from New York, Boston and New Haven came together for "Museum Without Walls: Blurring Boundaries" to discuss various approaches of using digital technology to make public art more accessible. On July 26th, city officials from New York, Pittsburgh and Albuquerque discussed "Planning for the Future: Integrating Art and Architecture into a Digital Cultural Landscape" and shared visions about incorporating art, technology, and cultural tourism into city planning. |
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Featured Art Collections: Universities throughout the country have some of the most significant public artworks in their collections which not only enliven the campus, but are used as a teaching resource for their MFA and Architecture programs. Two of the most wonderful and extensive are Yale’s and MIT’s. They include work by both well-known and emerging artists, faculty and students. MIT’s collections distinguish themselves from conventional museum holdings not only by the focus on contemporary art, but also by public visibility. The Institute itself has become the museum, with works of art integrated into daily life and working situations of visiting scholars, students, parents, alumni, and friends. http://listart.mit.edu/about
YALE UNIVERSITY ART COLLECTION Yale University’s commitment to art as a public trust does not end at the museum door. Hallmarks of the remarkable cultural life of the institution, works of art lend a public face to Yale’s educational mission. www.yale.edu/publicart/ |
Bars of Color Within Squares (2007) by Sol Lewitt
© MIT Public Art Collection
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 La Grande Voile (1965) by Alexander Calder © MIT Public Art Collection |
 Modern Head (1974) by Roy Lichtenstein
©Yale University Art Collection |
Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks (1974) by Claes Oldenburg © Yale University Art Collection
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UPCOMING EVENTS FEATURED TOUR
Architectural Boat Tour of New York
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Featured Artist: SOL LEWITT The featured artist this month is Sol Lewitt. As our digital national gallery expands, we discovered that his work can be found throughout the country in many collections and that it would be interesting to highlight a few key works. |
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Loopy Doopy (1999) by Sol Lewitt
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Styrofoam Installation #32 (1996) by Sol Lewitt photo © cultureNOW
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Featured Architect:
PKSB ARCHITECTS |
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TKTS Booth
Father Duffy Square Red Steps Architects: PKSB Design Architects: Tai Ropiha and John Choi TKTS Booth Architects: Perkins Eastman photo © Paul Rivera/ArchPhoto Courtesy of Perkins Eastman |
Triple Bridge Gateway
photo © ArchPhoto |
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